Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Semiotexte on Autonomia scanned

Generation online has posted the entirety of its issue devoted to the Italian autonomist group Autonomia and the Italian events of the 1970s. The scans are really poor (are all of them upside down?), but there's probably some interesting reading in here.

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No lie -- I was looking at this book today (Wednesday) in a bookshop in Edinburgh - neglected to buy as couldn't find a price ticket for it. no fucking staff to be found to ask the price -- yes -- i know -- i should have half-inched it -- what can I say/ -- I'm old now!

Will buy the fucker tomorrow.

From Amazon:

Semiotext(e) is reissuing in book form its legendary magazine issue Autonomia: Post-Political Politics, originally published in New York in 1980. Edited by Sylvère Lotringer and Christian Marazzi with the direct participation of the main leaders and theorists of the Autonomist movement (including Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Franco Piperno, Oreste Scalzone, Paolo Virno, Sergio Bologna, and Franco Berardi), this volume is the only first-hand document and contemporaneous analysis that exists of the most innovative post-'68 radical movement in the West. The movement itself was broken when Autonomia members were falsely accused of (and prosecuted for) being the intellectual masterminds of the Red Brigades; but even after the end of Autonomia, this book remains a crucial testimony of the way this creative, futuristic, neo-anarchistic, postideological, and nonrepresentative political movement of young workers and intellectuals anticipated issues that are now confronting us in the wake of Empire. In the next two years, Semiotext(e) will publish eight books by such Italian "Post-Fordist" intellectuals as Antonio Negri, Christian Marazzi, Paolo Virno, and Bifo, as they update the theories of Autonomia for the new century.